Pakistan
Chief of Army Staff, General Kayani, with U.S. Chairman of
the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, on an air tour of north
Pakistan,
where the U.S. wants Pakistan to more aggressively hunt
militants,
July 24. Is WikiLeaks doing the biding of the United States?
The Nation, Pakistan
WikiLeaks: U.S. Scapegoats ISI to 'Hide its Own Shame'
"This
constitutes the latest malicious attempt to discredit Pakistan intelligence
by depicting it as a villain out to throw a spanner into the works of America’s
inevitable march toward victory … Washington is desperately trying to find an honorable
way out of the deepening Afghan quagmire, but doesn't want to be labeled as the
vanquished. The 'spoiler' ISI is the perfect fit."
Founder, spokesperson and editor in chief of WikiLeaks Julian Assange: His group's release of 90,000 classified documents pertaining to Afghanistan has turned the media world and world at large upside down.
To circulate accusatory
material, albeit unverified, confusing and largely based on input from an
unfriendly if not hostile source, is an outrageous misuse of freedom of the
press. There can be little doubt that the WikiLeaks
story, which alleges that the ISI is providing every aid possible to
certain Taliban factions to enable them to fight U.S.-led NATO forces and which
has been widely distributed by even prestigious media in the West, has been
leaked with sheer malafide
intent. This constitutes the latest malicious attempt to discredit the intelligence
agency of Pakistan's Army by depicting it as a villain out to throw a spanner
into the works of America’s inevitable march toward victory in the war on
terror. The truth behind this expectation of victory is rather embarrassing for
the United States - too embarrassing to encounter as it struts about the world as
the greatest military today. So in order to hide its shame, the ISI has come in
handy. Incidentally, such demonization serves more than one purpose and player
in the game.
Posted
by WORLDMEETS.US
Washington is desperately
trying to find an honorable way out of the deepening Afghan quagmire, but
doesn't want to be labeled as the vanquished. The "spoiler" ISI is
the perfect fit for pressurizing Islamabad to move into North Waziristan, even if
to do so would be counterproductive to its own interests. But in the opinion of
American strategists, this strategy holds the last hope of turning defeat into
victory.
Besides, once the U.S. has beaten
a retreat, the perfidy of a vital Pakistani state organ provides a useful pretext
to wriggle out of its often-repeated assurance of a lasting friendship. India's
growing importance in America's eyes encourages New Delhi to hatch plans that
malign Pakistan, and Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, their beneficiaries in
the days of Taliban rule when Pakistan stood in the opposite camp, bears an
understandable grudge against Pakistan. The predominant position of Northern
Alliance in the top ranks of the Afghan army and its intelligence agency
provided it an opportunity to stigmatize the ISI in its reports, which form the
bulk of material released by WikiLeaks. Thus, we have a U.S.-Indo-Afghan nexus tearing
down a key Pakistan institution.
Neither Islamabad’s outrage
at the malicious and baseless account of events in Malakand Division and
South Waziristan, where its forces have valiantly outdone militants, nor U.S.
public condemnation of the leak, can undo the damage this document release has
done. One wonders what other proof our U.S.-subservient leaders need in order
to realize who our real enemy is!
